A 56-year-old man died last month after California paramedics allegedly refused to enter a care facility to assist him when he was not breathing.
The incident took place on Nov. 11 in Rialto, California. This from westernjournal.com.
A 911 call from the Rialto Post Acute Care Center sent first responders there at about 7:50 p.m. When police officer Ralph Ballew arrived, two Rialto Fire responders were at the door of the facility, according to KTTV-TV, which obtained Bellew’s bodycam video of the incident.
The video shows personnel working on a patient, appearing to administer CPR, while telling the officer the bed has no wheels.
The video shows Ballew and nursing staff pushing the bed to the doorway and down the hall.
Once the patient is past the front door, the paramedics take over.
Joseph Angulo, 56, was transported to a hospital, but he later died.
Is this what all of these COVID laws have done?
“It is difficult to watch the tape,” Rialto Mayor Pro Tem Ed Scott said.
Scott said he was told about the incident and then contacted the city attorney.
Sergy El More-Shedy from the state Emergency Medical Services Authority said there was no law barring personnel from assisting the man.
Rialto Acting Fire Chief Brian Park said the paramedics involved were put on leave pending an investigation.
Paramedics “insisted the patient had to be brought outside the facility before they could provide any sort of treatment,” Ballew wrote in a report, according to LAFocus.
Ballew said paramedics refused to help bring the patient outside.
“Despite being in their line of sight, fire personnel still insisted on (the patient) being brought to them outside before they began life saving efforts and made no effort to assist me in getting (the patient) outside,” he wrote.
Ballew said paramedics told him “Some COVID-19 law” prohibited them from entering the facility.
“I was then told (since) the implementation of said law, Rialto Fire Personnel had not received any direction on how to proceed from their command,” he wrote.
Lesson learned here: Don’t step foot into California and if you disregard this advice don’t become ill to the point of needing medical assistance.
California is one of those insane, crazy-ass Blue states where rules are rules are rules and all else be damned.
These damn COVID laws and mandates are killing people—in multiple ways.
God speed to the powers of right and true.
